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~Why KoKeBee?~
KoKeBee is an organization run by three Japanese women who now call Sydney, Australia home. Even though we live far away from Japan, we apply Japanese customs and culture to our daily life. Through our everyday life abroad, we realized that Japan has so many wonderful cultures and aesthetics.
One of them is the Japanese spirit called "mottainai" that has been rooted in Japan for a long time. The word "mottainai" means "Too good to be wasted" which conveys a sense of regret over waste. The word originates from Buddhism.
The word, "mottainai" is consisted of two Japanese words.
"mottai" means "object" in writing and "nai" means "gone" or "disappear"
Together, it means, "use object until its shape disappears completely"
For example, in the old days, yukata(Japanese casual kimono) or Kimono(Japanese traditional clothes) were used as sleepwear when they became old, and then they were sewn again into diapers and rags, which were used repeatedly until they reached the end of their life then finally burnt. Furthermore, the remaining ash have been used as detergent and fertilizer.
And when roasted sesame was crushed in a mortar to make a dressing, the residue of sesame left in a ditch of mortar was melted by adding the stock of miso soup and returned to the pot. The mortar will then be clean and you will need almost no water to wash it.
In old days, this residue was melted and cleaned by pouring the stock of miso soup, then put back into the pot.
As a result, the mortar get clean and almost no water required to wash it.
Other famous ones are the "Kintsugi" which means "golden joinery" which is a repairing technique used when crockery and lacquered tableware were chipped. This is the Japanese art of repairing by applying lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver and platinum along the line of the cracked dish wears.
There is also "Haire" which means exchanging the strings or the bottom part of a pair of wooden clogs (traditional Japanese footwear), "Tagaya" which is a repairer who mend the tubs and barrels by applying bamboo or metal strings around, "Recycle paper truck" which collectors who collects unwanted paper materials such as newspapers, books, magazines etc. by driving a truck on a door to door basis. There are endless example of "Mottainai" spirit have been practiced in everyday life in Japan since old days.
From these examples it is obvious that "3R", Reduce(reduce rubbish), Reuse and Recycle which are three essential factors required to realize Sustainable Lifestyle, was already practiced in Japan during the Edo period.
At KoKeBee, including Beeswax Eco Wrap, we would like to introduce the products that will allow us to practice this "Mottainai" spirit.
For example, the products,
① Can be used many times (= rubbish reduction)
② Can be revived by remelting or fixing when wears out (= reuse)
③ Can be returned to the soil in the end of its life (= recycling)
By doing so, we would like to continue to stock products that will allow us
It is from our pure wish to spread this spirit to people all over the world through our products.
Mrs. Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is working to make the word "Mottainai" to a universal word, said, "This word has the meaning of respect and love for the nature and things"
The days using single use (disposable) materials are over.
From now on, each of us need to make an effort to restore our mother earth by what we can do, even little by little. We believe "Mottainai" spirit is the key word needed in the present era.
Our logo character, "Kokebi-chan" is a character that combines "Kokeshi doll", which symbolizes Japanese traditional culture, with "Bee" which is essential for making beeswax eco-wraps. Kokeshi doll is a world-wide idol who can be recognized as "Japanese Doll!" Even in foreign countries. We hope that our Kokeshi-chan entrusts the spirit of Japan with the wings of bees and spreads its wings to the future and to the world.
Asuka Endo
Representative Director of AIY Australia
Born in Tokyo. She came to Australia in 2011 and gave birth to two children. Since then, four family members have lived in Sydney.
For about 15 years, she has been active as a dancer in various countries including Japan, Australia, and Asian countries. In 2009, she became a NIKE contract athlete dancer, and at the same time expanded her range of activities as a yoga instructor.
>Currently, she is engaged not only in yoga but also in sound therapy using a singing bowl to approach the mind and energy from the perspective of the physical and mental health of the client. With the start of natural care for the skin, such as facial yoga and fasting of the skin without the use of moisturizers on the face, lead her gradually shifted to the minimalist lifestyle.
Her column "Easy! Everyday Exercises" is being serialized in "Nichigo Press" a general magazine for the Japanese community in Australia. In addition, she has launched and manages the "Sydney Japanese Mother's Party" on Facebook, where it is joined by more than 2000 Japanese mums living in Sydney.
Thoughts on Kokebee
I first came across beeswax eco wrap when I came to think that I wanted to shift my lifestyle to more simple and natural way.
My first impression of beeswax wrap was like "It is so cute and will be popular if I sell it!
But after we founded AIY Australia which runs KoKeBee brand and started running business, we continuously discussed over the topics such as "what is our managing philosophy" "what is our mission" and I started having this strong feeling that "I want to aim at creating a recycling-based society in which humans and nature can coexist"
Now I feel that humankind is standing on the brink. I believe each of us need to do something they can in order to protect the earth. And I believe it is not that difficult or painful things to do.
If we can spread this happy feeling of living along with the nature to the world through KoKeBee … I have entrusted such a big dream to KoKeBee , our mascot character.
Yoshiko Butler
Born in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. After being involved in setting up an e-commerce site for women , she moved on to work with a publishing company and was responsible for editing magazine. After moving to Australia, she was in charge of editorial work at a local Japanese newspaper, and became the deputy editor. After returning to school and obtaining an MBA , while working as a freelance editor, she was in charge of support operations such as explaining distribution data at an American financial data provider.
From 2010 , when she moved to Australia, she became interested in quantum mechanics, astrophysics, sacred geometry, qigong, etc., and was more immersed in pursuing the truth of the universe.
In 2012, through a vivid transcendental experience at a sacred geometry workshop, while understanding the mysterious functions hidden in the human body, at the same time, visioned the true way of this world where humans and the natural world coexist as one. When she was looking for something that could be more familiar than geometry and contribute to raising the awareness of humankind through a general language, she was resonated with the concept of KoKeBee and the world view that aims to realize a recycling-oriented society, and in 2019, she joined AIY Australia.
I was born and raised in a small town surrounded by beautiful sea and mountains. Nature taught me a lot, and of course I thought that such an amazing environment would last forever. There was a time when I enjoyed youth in big cities such as Tokyo and NY in search of an exciting life, but for me, what I finally want to return to is a rural city where I could live while feeling the flow and energy of the nature rather than a big city filled with concrete.
A deep forest where you can breathe comfortably, beautiful beaches and lakes where the shining water is beautiful like a jewel, and you can be healed just by looking at them, and the starry sky that spreads in the clear night sky, which you will want to talk to forever.
Perhaps everyone has the experience like yelling in their hearts, "I don't want to go home!", after experiencing time in such a beautiful environment for a few days.
Environmental destruction now seems to be proceeding at an unprecedented speed. In the present circumstances, I believe that each one's sentiment and awareness, even it seemingly insignificant, will become a great power when they resonate with each other.
I would be very happy if we could deliver information and products that could help you to reach to such a scene through KoKeBee.
Ikuko Umemura
Adviser of AIY Australia
Born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, she has lived in Sydney, Australia since 1993. A family of four with a Japanese husband, a university student daughter and a son. She is also active as a natural allergy care advisor and organic expert.
She has had allergies since she was a child. Her father, who was a doctor, had a strong influence, she had been applying steroids and antihistamines whenever symptoms occur for about 30 years. In her 40s, when she was still suffering from physical problems, she decided to seriously deal with the severe atopic dermatitis that had already been unable to cure by steroids. By reconsidering her diet and incorporating natural remedies on a daily basis, she restored clean skin and a healthy body.
She had encountered and loved "Beeswas Eco Wrap" while incorporating a natural life, and commercialized it with her current partner Asuka. They launched AIY Australia Pty Ltd in 2016 and started manufacturing and selling beeswax wrap as our own product.
Her dream is to build a small self-built house with her husband and live a semi-sufficient life. She likes biodynamic farming, food science experiments, and manual driving.
As a countermeasure for my allergies, I was enjoying the natural life while cooking rice in a clay pot, making miso with organic ingredients from scratch, and making lotion with herbs in the garden. Beeswax Eco Wrap was originally used as part of my own allergy control measures to reduce the intake of environmental hormones.
But as a result, I realized that such lifestyle did not only improved my allergies, but had many other effects on the world. It also reduces the amount of rubbish generated from homes, supports organic farmers, protects them from the health hazards that result from exposure to pesticides, and reduces child labour on the other side of the globe. It was all connected! –I started realizing that fact.
Now, I want to protect the health of not only myself but also many other people who are suffering from allergies. And I also want to tell you that it is the way the earth circulates in accordance with the laws of nature.
Through this small, square beeswax eco-wrap, I am renewing my vow to work in every way I can to reach the people of Japan and all over the world.
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The UMN Onsite Sewage Treatment Program, along with Lake County and Lake County SWCD, offering a FREE septic system and private well homeowner education class in our area on October 9, 2018. It will be held at the Fall Lake Township Town Hall from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. This class will cover the basics of how septic systems function, well water testing, and how to help protect your well from contamination sources. It will also provide property owners information on chemicals of emerging concern (CEC) including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and the potential impact on ground and surface water. Information on proper maintenance of both septic systems and private drinking water systems will be covered to help property owners protect their investments and the environment. Christine McCarthy, the Environmental Services Director for Lake County, will be present to answer any questions you may have related to the local ordinance and related programs.
For Lake County Residents that sign up early on the above link, Lake County will assemble a packet with people's personal septic system and well information.
For additional information, resources, and links on septic systems and water wells, click on the "Educational Tab" on the WICOLA Homepage and then "Septic Systems" and "Water Wells".


Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is tendering for our 2020 Easter programme, which aims to engage families with our horticulture and science work while giving visitors the chance to have fun in the Gardens over the Easter half term.
Easter 2020 will see a partnership with The Gruffalo in events that take place at both RBG, Kew in Richmond and at Wakehurst, Sussex. The events will be outdoors and will complement each other – as much as possible the content will be the same but will be sympathetic to the idiosyncrasies of each location.
We are seeking a company to work collaboratively with RBG Kew and the Gruffalo license management team to design, produce and install/de-install stunning and visually striking sets/scenes, which will be installed in the landscape of the Gardens.


Financing equipment allows businesses to get the equipment they need without affecting bank or credit lines. No matter the type of business, you need the proper equipment to efficiently compete and flourish. That's why Lease Corporation of America provides financing options for Fogg Filler: so your business can reach its full potential.
Fogg is a world leader in the design and manufacture of rotary filling, rinsing, capping and enclosure systems for carbonated and/or non-carbonated liquids. From 10-1,000 bottles per minute to accommodate your required production rates. They endeavor to combine skilled craftsmen with innovative management to offer their customers a quality team known for outstanding machinery and service worldwide.


Love Like This Life: I Blinked, And It's Been A Week.
Guess I didn't get that much blogging done in that spare 20 minutes I had last Thursday.
Now, it's been a full week.
And some of you have been checking this blog, and there haven't been any updates.
I really do aspire to be one of those bloggers who blogs as part of her daily routine. It would be fun for me. And it would be nice for you to have a little something to read each day instead of a load of posts every now and then, right? It would probably be more time efficient that way, too.
But, so far, it's just not working out like that. There is so much I want to share with you. Left over stuff from BEFORE just this past week. But it's on this computer, and another computer, and photos are here, and there, and on the camera and on the phone.
All of that, and I just now have time to sit here and sort. My pictures. My thoughts. All of it needs to be sorted. Although, I bet sometimes what you read here doesn't seem like it's all that "sorted," maybe just the photos.
I'm not really a good sorter. I don't even sort laundry. If I have a red shirt and a white towel and I end up with a red shirt and a pink towel, well, that's what I get. Because I don't have time to sort laundry. And, my husband doesn't mind pink towels, thankfully.
Today I talked to my best friend in the world, Ann, on Skype. It was wonderful. There is something so special about that one best friend, isn't there? It's like home. Hi Ann!
Sorry, but it looks like you're going to have some catching up to do around here.


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«Динамо-Политех» — российский мужской баскетбольный клуб из Курска, в сезоне 2008/2009 гг. выступал в Суперлиге Б. В сезоне 2010/2011 выступает в высшей лиге.

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Мужская команда курского «Динамо» была организована перед началом сезона 2005/06 годов. Дебютировала команда в первой лиге «Черноземье» довольно успешно, завоевав путевку в высшую лигу «Б» зона «Центр». В следующем сезоне клуб выступил успешно и снова завоевал право на повышение в классе. Высшую лигу «А» «Динамо-Политех» прошел всего за год и уже в сезоне 2008/09 годов клуб стартовал в суперлиге «Б». В этом сезоне руководство клуба приняло решение основную ставку сделать на женский коллектив, выступавший в еврокубках. В результате финансовой нестабильности мужской «Динамо-Политех» потерял всех своих лидеров, на смену которым пришли дублёры. Весной 2009 года клуб «Динамо-Политех» подал заявку о снятии с соревнований в суперлиге «Б».

В сезоне 2009/10 команда в высшей лиге в группе «Юг» заняла 9-е место из 11, а в финальной части первенства — 16-е из 19.

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 Сайт фанатов БК «Динамо» (Курск)

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Баскетбольные клубы по алфавиту
Спортивные клубы Курска

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Thank you for all of the amazing donations! We are compiling the Auction catalog now.
If you'd like a chance to donate, but still don't quite know what to give, consider a monetary donation to support this exciting event!


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Saint-Ouen-Domprot é uma comuna francesa na região administrativa do Grande Leste, no departamento de Marne. Estende-se por uma área de 37.28 km², e possui 205 habitantes, segundo o censo de 2018, com uma densidade de 5.5 hab/km².

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For the longest time, we've been reliant on mideast oil. Saudi sources being the largest stake. We in America have prospered for a long time through our oil deals with the Saud family. It's known that we've propped them up militarily despite many of the Saudi people's wishes, and despite their extremely undemocratic processes. They in turn have remained loyal to us in the realm of oil.
It could be said that a major industrial nation having formal ties to the Middle East will do well, receiving inexpensive oil and performing well commercially and industrially at home, if they allow themselves to.
America has prevented itself from moving on from this natural resource-product deal by ignoring its own massive advances in energy technology. We, and the industrialized world, do not particularly need oil from anywhere in the world. We can use our own technology instead. Which is the country in the world that we want *least* to be attacked by a major force? It is probably Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Panama, Israel, or Great Britain, Germany, or France, or Japan. After that it would probably be Canada, Mexico, Italy and Spain, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia, which has a whole new barrel of monkeys, and probably India and China and Korea. Australia also plays a part. This is primarily in order of global and American importance. Disruption of ideal lines should not occur, and forces work to prevent this kind of event, and the preoccupation of these events.
But oil seems to drive world industry. And the world being so close to peak oil and so tightly choked upon it, disruption in the Middle East is the last thing we truly want. Which is so amazing that we've supported and armed Israel so radically, and given them a literal free range in doing anything they like in the Middle East. That is not right. Justice must be served there, in proportion.
I would not call the new Iraqi state not-viable. They may find themselves amalgamated into their neighboring countries, much to Iran, a Kurdish state eventually, Kuwait can take some of its motherland home, and probably a New Iraq. American activity in this area is simply illegitimate. We have no right to play in their regional role playing. Our only interest there is oil and peace, and the oil we can technically do without.
Apportioning resources and cultivation for those who need it and can use it well in God's service, we do not belong in Iraq. We could help them by playing an important UN role, which is the role of the world in looking out for the best in any region. But our ground soldiers will not meaningfully help at this point. Saudi Arabia should also advance their state and come closer to freedom.


This autumn, Dela on Dominick Street, Galway, becomes Dela By Night after 6pm with their twist on winter dining.
Dela Restaurant and farm pursues a sustainable ideal that allows this westend restaurant to support the local economy and community to produce creative, nutritious and honest food across all Dela menus. This summer Dela farm celebrated the addition of a new polytunnel which means that in late autumn and into early 2017, Dela Farm will be supplying the restaurant with vegetables, herbs and salads.
Winter dining at Dela, sees the early birds in from 6pm to 7pm for two courses at €22. Dela at night has based their main dishes around the sea and the land. With Brady's Striploin Steak with Portobello mushroom and caramelised shallots, served with Dela's own house cut chips or if seafood is your thing sample the monkfish, Connemara mussels and clams with crab and smoked bacon croquettes and asparagus. The house favourite braised pork belly and breaded pig cheek with celeriac and apple slaw will not disappoint.
Sharing boards are what Dela does best. There's a veggie board with Galway Goat Farm goats cheese, quiona and roast veg stacks, falafel, olives and coriander salsa. For fish lovers, the seafood board teams' calamari, smoked mackerel, mussels and smoked salmon.
Dela Restaurant is open from Tuesday to Saturday with Early Bird and Pre Theatre dinning from 6pm to 7pm. For more information follow Dela on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, phone (091) 449 252 or log onto www.dela.ie.


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Josh Johnson is feeling good heading into spring training
By Bill BaerFeb 8, 2014, 11:05 PM EDT
Padres starter Josh Johnson has been a Major League regular for eight seasons, but has been able to cross the 100-inning threshold just four times. The right-hander has famously had trouble staying healthy and it was the case last year after coming to the Blue Jays in a mega-trade with the Marlins. He made only 16 starts and posted a 6.20 ERA, suffering from inflammation in his right triceps, a blister on his throwing hand, tendinitis in his left knee, and a forearm strain.
Johnson underwent surgery in October to remove bone spurs in his right elbow. Lately, he has been working out near his home in Nevada and has received good reviews from UNLV head coach Tim Chambers which gave him a boost of confidence as he prepares to head into spring training with the Padres. Via MLB.com's Corey Brock:
"He walked up to me and said, 'I can see a difference in just you playing catch' at the 75 feet or what it was at the time," Johnson said. "That was huge. I've felt good but then to have someone else say I can see a difference, can see the extension … that was nice."
Johnson also talked about how the elbow injury snuck up on him:
"Spring Training [in 2013], [the elbow] felt good, but there was something in there that wasn't bothering me yet," Johnson said. "We got to April and it started creeping in. You could tell that something wasn't quite there. I couldn't get to that extension."
The Padres signed Johnson to a one-year, $8 million deal, hoping to get out of him what the Blue Jays could not — a full healthy and productive season. His fastball averaged 95 MPH as recently as 2010, but it fell below 93 MPH over the past two seasons. Additionally, he's induced fewer ground balls and become more homer-prone, but a move to the spacious confines of Petco Park should help in that regard.
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Schoenoplectus oligosetus är en halvgräsart som först beskrevs av Andrey Evgenievich Kozhevnikov, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Tatiana Vladimirovna Egorova. Schoenoplectus oligosetus ingår i släktet sävsläktet, och familjen halvgräs. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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"Wall of my boyhood, Moel Drigarn, Carn Gyfrwy, Tal Mynydd,
In my mind's independence ever at my back"
Waldo Williams
Waldo Goronwy Williams is regarded as a mythical figure. No one who knew him bore a grudge towards him. Whoever spent time in his company would embrace him and treasure every meeting. Young children were always fond of him when he taught them.
Some would insist that he possessed the attributes of a saint. Indeed, he had strong convictions and an impish humour. Someone once said it had taken two thousand years of Welsh civilization to create a man such as Waldo. He had immersed himself in the history of his nation. On one occasion he stood as a Plaid Cymru parliamentary candidate.
Although he lost his deposit he won many admirers. To many Waldo was the greatest Welsh poet of the twentieth century. To others he was a pacifist who happened to be a poet. He was much admired for his insistence on serving two prison sentences for his refusal to pay income tax in protest against war and compulsory military service.
In his mid-fifties he joined the Quakers. He relished the inner stillness he would experience in the Meeting House. He dedicated his only volume of poetry Dail Pren (Tree Leaves) as a source of healing for his nation. We do not know of any other poet who made a similar gesture to his nation.
2019 Annual Lecture
The Annual Cymdeithas Waldo Lecture in 2019 will be held at Oriel y Parc, St Davids at 8.00 pm on Friday, September 27 and will commemorate 60 years since Waldo stood in a general election as Plaid Cymru's first ever candidate in Pembrokeshire.
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Rev Guto Prys ap Gwynfor Lecture 2018
A profound and comprehensive lecture was delivered by Guto Prys ap Gwynfor at Millin Chapel, near Haverfordwest, on Friday, September 28 placing Waldo very much in the pantheon of history's rightful nonconformists. He listed him in the tradition of tRead More….


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Iceland Arbitration Lawyers Desk
Aceris Law's Iceland Arbitration Lawyers Desk is a dedicated team of lawyers at Aceris Law, a specialised international arbitration law firm, which accompanies clients involved in arbitrations concerning Iceland, i.e., where Icelandic law applies, a contract is executed in Iceland, the dispute is brought by or against a party in Iceland, or the Icelandic State or an Icelandic State entity is involved.
Aceris Law's Harvard, Oxford and Sorbonne trained lawyers are admitted to bars of Western Europe, Eastern Europe and North America and have significant prior experience dealing with commercial, construction and investment treaty arbitrations under the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, ICDR, VIAC and other arbitration rules, many of which have concerned Iceland and neighbouring States.
Our Iceland Arbitration Lawyers Desk maintains ties to the best domestic Icelandic lawyers, who are involved depending on the specific needs of a given arbitration. This ensures that our clients obtain the best arbitration legal representation while also maintaining cost-effectiveness for arbitrations involving Iceland.
Our Iceland Arbitration Lawyers Desk has access to Icelandic jurisprudence and doctrine, while maintaining permanent access to offices in Iceland, including in Reykjavik, to meet and work with clients.
We also have significant prior experience with arbitrations involving Nordic countries. For example, Aceris Law's Iceland Arbitration Lawyers Desk represented a client in an investment arbitration dispute under UNCITRAL rules with a Nordic State regarding the expropriation of a forested estate. Our lawyers have also represented a Nordic client in an ICC arbitration in the logistics industry, another in a dispute regarding the development of a gas turbine and have served in multiple disputes involving the shipping industry.
By having a dedicated team for arbitrations concerning Iceland, Aceris Law ensures that arbitrations involving Iceland are handled efficiently, making the best use of our arbitration lawyers' know-how as well as linguistic and cultural skills, which are important for the successful outcome of an international arbitration.
To learn more about Aceris' Iceland Arbitration Lawyers Desk, please do not hesitate to contact us.


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Commissioner Black Gets First Glimpse of Hurricane Michael's Damage
Dan October 12, 2018 Georgia, Industry News Release
Agriculture Commissioner Gary W. Black got his first glance of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Michael during a brief flyover on Friday with Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission Chuck Williams.
"Unfortunately, our worst thoughts were realized, "said Commissioner Black. "We saw months and sometimes years of work just laid over on the ground in a matter of seconds."
Pecan groves once again suffered extensive damage with downed trees and dropped pecans. This is the third straight year that Georgia pecan growers have found themselves victims of a hurricane. Farmers in the path of Hurricane Matthew back in 2016 lost up to one-third of their operation. Last year's Hurricane Irma resulted in a 30 percent loss statewide. Hurricane Michael was stronger than the previous two hurricanes when it cut through a larger area of the state, resulting in widespread and catastrophic damage. The losses are further magnified because it takes at least seven years for a new pecan tree to start producing viable nuts.
Low disease and insect pressure combined with a strong market had both vegetable and cotton farmers expecting a profitable year. But Hurricane Michael hit the crops at their most vulnerable, with only 15 percent of the cotton and 30 percent of the vegetables harvested. The cotton and vegetable crops in the hurricane hit areas are now being considered a total loss.
Peanut farmers were 50 percent through their harvest and seemed to fare better than other commodities. But Commissioner Black says there are still concerns surrounding getting the peanuts processed.
"The goal right now is to assist our partners as they work to restore power to buying points and processing facilities, so our farmers can get their product to market," Commissioner Black said.
Updated numbers from the poultry industry indicate 92 chicken houses were destroyed. Poultry is the state's top agricultural commodity, contributing $23.3 billion to the economy.
Hurricane Michael Damage Assessment Flyover Footage
This aerial footage comes from Commissioner Black's damage assessment flyover of Southwest Georgia on October 12, 2018. It shows destruction of much of the poultry, pecans, peanuts, and cotton that are the livelihoods of many farmers in that corner of the state.
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View more photos of Hurricane Michael's devastation.
Source: Georgia Department of Agriculture
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The Ghenanma (Arabic غنانمة) are an Arab tribe of the Saoura region in southwestern Algeria.  Their principal settlements (ksars) stretch between Béni Abbès and Talmine, including El Ouata.  A local chronicle mentions them as raiding a caravan in this region in 1599, and by about 1660 their power had grown to the point that they were imposing taxes on the Touat oases.  They continued to play a significant role in Touat's politics into the 19th century, through both treaties of protection and raids.

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A pleasure to welcome Nigel Dessau to the show! Nigel is a marketing professional and the author of Become A 21st Century Executive: Breaking Away from the Pack, a practical guide to helping middle managers not only survive, but thrive in today's complex workplace.
1. How anyone can acquire new content, expand their network, and hone their approach so that they can finally score that promotion.
3. Why a lack of upward mobility may have to do with an employee's professional network.
4. What happens when someone recognizes that they may not get promoted in a company, no matter how hard they work or how much they deserve it.
5. Why many people move into roles and jobs that limit their careers.
Nigel is a nationally award-winning marketing professional with over 25 years of experience leading corporate marketing and communications for several multi-million and billion dollar companies. He began his career by working for IBM, serving customers and partners in the UK. Dessau decided to move to the U.S. following an assignment in New York, where he continued to work for IBM for nine years. Since leaving, Dessau has held senior executive and CMO roles at both private and Fortune 500 companies including StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, AMD, and Stratus Technologies.
Dessau is the creator and driving force behind the 3 Minute Mentor website, which provides significant career guidance in three minute videos. The website claims thousands of subscribers from all over the world. Become a 21st Century Executive is based upon episodes and concepts found in the 3 Minute Mentor.


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Rwanda reaps fruits of economic reform
Rwanda at 55! Economic reforms are bearing fruit as the country continues to see strong economic growth.
Rwanda's accession to the Commonwealth in November 2009 marked another step in the landlocked African nation engaging with the outside world.
The group of mostly former British colonies brings together industrialised and developing nations, espouses democracy and good governance, and is a consensus-seeking forum on issues like economic policy, trade and climate change. Rwanda's accession is a recognition of its rehabilitation since the genocide in 1994, said Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo at an audience with journalists in London.
"The genocide and discrimination was, in some ways, due to a paranoia and fear of opening up. Our government now has a deliberate policy to open up. The more Rwandans come and go, the more they will benefit, and Rwanda joining the Commonwealth is part of this policy to open doors."
Rwanda's joining the Commonwealth is just the latest in a stream of initiatives to engage with the outside world that is starting to entice investment into the country. Despite the chill of last year's global economic downturn, foreign investment jumped 40% to $1.1bn in 2009 and is expected to rise 20% this year.
Rwanda recently became the World Bank's biggest business reformer according to its Ease of Doing Business Index, rising to 67th position overall, with starting up a business, registering property, paying taxes and enforcing contracts all getting easier. The Rwanda Development Board says it will simplify the issuance of land and building permits and promises to work with the East African Community trade bloc to address red tape and non-tariff barriers. "It now takes a Rwandan entrepreneur just two procedures and three days to start a business," said the World Bank.
Rwanda's drive for private sector investment to transform its smallholder agricultural economy into a regional hub for financial services, ICT and tourism is finally starting to bear fruit. Investment is moving into the banking sector as groups seek to tap Rwanda's unbanked population.
Kenya Commercial Bank set up in Rwanda in 2008 and has expanded its branch network to nine; it is the only company that is quoted on the Rwanda bourse following its cross listing in 2009. Nigeria's Access Bank has a 75% stake in Rwanda's fourth-largest bank, Bancor SA, and is anchoring its East Africa push out of Kigali. "Access Bank's presence in Rwanda is vital for our reaching the vast East African market," said Access Bank's Deputy Managing Director Herbert Wigwe.
Dutch group Rabobank has a stake in Banque Populaire du Rwanda; and ShoreCap International and Germany's African Development Corporation – which also has a controlling stake in Simtel, the national electronic payment transactions provider – are also on the ground. Tourism, the country's biggest foreign exchange earner, is growing. In 2007, tourists spent $209m and in 2008, visitor numbers to resorts like Virunga National Park and Lake Kivu jumped 50%.
Commentators highlight investor opportunities in high-end resorts. "There are 187 hotels in Rwanda and only seven are upper range," says the Rwanda Development Board (RDB). Rwanda was among the countries hit by the fallout from the collapse of the Dubai sovereign wealth fund in 2009. A $230m venture with Dubai World to build six tourism projects collapsed, leaving just two – the Nyungwe Forest Lodge and Gorilla's Nest Hotel – worth around $25m.
Plethora of investments
In Rwanda's biggest foreign investment to date, New York-based ContoursGlobal, a privately owned renewable power developer, is ploughing $325m to harness methane gas to boost electricity generation compressed under the waters of Lake Kivu, one of Africa's great lakes, which lies on the border of Rwanda and the DR Congo.
The company plans the first 25MW of the project to connect to the grid by October this year and says it will total 100MW on completion in 2012. Most of Rwanda's current 69MW power output comes from oil generators and hydropower. Elsewhere, South Africa's Industrial Development Group is conducting a feasibility study to build a gas-to-liquid plant on Lake Kivu that would convert methane gas into products such as diesel, petrol and liquid petroleum gas.
Canadian group Vangold Resources, which discovered signs of oil under Lake Kivu in aerial surveys, is also preparing an oil survey under a Special Hydrocarbon Exploration Licence. Vangold holds exclusive exploration rights to a 1,631sq km block. The government, which says it is targeting 90% of its electricity from renewable sources, has also signed biodiesel deals with Britishbased Eco Positive and US-based Eco-Fuel Global, together worth around $250m.
The company aims to meet up to 20% of domestic diesel demand from Jatropha-derived biofuels. Telecom companies have also jumped in. Sweden's Millicom International Cellular has just started operations following a $120m investment after winning Rwanda's third mobile licence in 2008. Trading under the brand name Tigo, the operator joins South Africa's MTN and Libyan-owned Rwandatel in providing mobile phone services. At the moment, MTN and Rwandatel have just two million subscribers, representing 20% market penetration. "We are here to compete. We want to increase penetration and accessibility to telephone services that are affordable," says Tigo chief executive Alex Camara.
Rwanda's ITC ambitions, outlined as a 'Priority Sector' in the government's Vision 2020 have also got a boost from the newly laid fibre-optic cable between Kigali and Mombasa. The submarine cable means the government's regulatory reform, infrastructure investment and education initiatives will finally start to bear fruit. Operators and the government are currently negotiating to acquire bandwidth from the cable, which will cut the price of accessing the Internet to as little as $100/mbps from current astronomical levels that range between $1,500-$5,000/mbps on costly and unreliable satellite connections.
Patrick Nyirishema at the RDB says, "Companies set to benefit most are ICT operators and service providers and we expect an explosion in broadband service subscriptions with cheaper international bandwidth. The only constraint is affordable access devices, but the operators and government are devising ways to overcome this. Affordable Internet will greatly impact academia, business, government and society in general." China is funding a $200m conference centre in the capital Kigali, representing another major part of Rwanda's ambition to become a regional information and communications hub.
Privatisation plans
Rwanda's mineral sector is its secondlargest foreign-exchange earner after tourism. Ore exports, processed to extract tin, coltan and tungsten used in consumer electronics, brought in $91.3m in 2008, according to Central Bank statistics. Mineral re-exports from neighbouring countries rose to $43.9m, amounting to 17% of total exports, up from $30.3m in 2007. Rwanda acts as a major conduit for mineral re-export from the DR Congo, where China holds a $6bn infrastructure for-minerals contract.
The government hopes to lure investments with results of a national mining survey to identify mineral deposits. It is also putting together 'a strong investor-friendly legal and policy framework', according to the RDB, which highlights particular opportunities in processing ores. The government promises to overhaul crumbling infrastructure with massive investment in the pipeline including a $4bn investment in Isaka Railway due to start in 2014, $300m in Bugesera Airport and a $12m investment in Kigali's Industrial Park.
Funding might be raised from government sell-offs including the government's recent announcement to privatise its 30% stake in brewer Bralirwa. The government has said it will sell 25% of its stake to the public and 5% to Dutch brewer Heineken, which already has a 70% stake in the company. The 50-year-old brewer, Rwanda's largest, also bottles Coca Cola products.
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Sonos is planning to implement AirPlay 2 support for its speakers starting this July, the company announced today at an event unveiling new technology.
Sonos has previously said that AirPlay 2 will be available on the Sonos One, the second-generation Play:5, the Playbase, and future products.
Older Sonos speakers will not support AirPlay 2 on their own due to processor limitations, but they can be paired with the Playbase, the Play:5, or the Sonos One to enable AirPlay 2 functionality. A Sonos Play:1 grouped with a Sonos One, for example, will support AirPlay 2.
AirPlay 2-enabled Sonos speakers will also work with other AirPlay 2 speakers such as the HomePod, and Apple Music will work on Sonos devices using Siri on a paired iPhone, according to Sonos.
Sonos today also announced that Amazon Alexa works with its devices starting now in multiple countries, and the company unveiled a new smart speaker for the living room — the Sonos Beam. The Sonos Beam, priced at $399, is a smart, compact soundbar designed for the TV, and it too will support AirPlay 2 and Siri. The Sonos Beam and other AirPlay 2 Sonos speakers are the first that have dual-assistant support, working with both Alexa and Siri. Google Assistant support is also in the works.
Apple first enabled AirPlay 2 in the iOS 11.4 update, released in late May, and following the release, Apple published a list of all of the speakers that have announced plans to implement support for AirPlay 2. AirPlay 2 will be enabled on Sonos speakers through a software update.
Pre-orders for the Sonos Beam are available starting today from the Sonos website, with Sonos planning to launch the speaker in July.


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Digital Musicology
Digital Musicology: Getting Started
What is Digital Musicology?
Digital musicology can be understood as a branch of digital humanities focusing on musical topics. Examples take on a variety of forms and styles, not limited to digital editions, sound archives, computational analysis, etc. This guide is intended to demonstrate extant resources and cultivate the potential for new projects. It is divided into three main categories: tools, projects, and open access aggregators+resources.
Aruspix
"With its optical recognition feature, Aruspix acts as a unique music scanning software for early music prints. With its superimposition and collation features, Aruspix acts as a tool for music editors in order to compare early music editions and re-editions when compiling comprehensive critical modern editions."
Augmented Notes
"Augmented Notes integrates scores and audio files to produce interactive multimedia websites in which measures of the score are highlighted in time with music."
"LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts."
Music Encoding Initiative
"The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is a community-driven effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure."
"Music21 builds on preexisting frameworks and technologies such as Humdrum, MusicXML, MuseData, MIDI, and Lilypond but music21 uses an object-oriented skeleton that makes it easier to handle complex data."
Music XML
"The standard open format for exchanging digital sheet music."
Open Access Aggregators+Resources
"DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants."
Digital Resources for Musicology
"This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists."
Frontiers in Digital Humanities (Digital Musicology)
"Digital Musicology focuses on musicology research involving digital technology. We welcome submissions describing methods, tools or infrastructures tackling issues in musicological digital data acquisition, representation, and standardization."
Open Music Library
"The Open Music Library is an initiative from Alexander Street to build the world's
largest free index of digital resources for the study of music."
Opera and Ballet Primary Sources
"A Guide to Digital Scores, Libretti, and Documents"
Beethovens Werkstatt
Digital edition of Beethoven's oeuvre using MEI.
Burns Antiphoner
"The manuscript viewer enables you to view a digitized image of each folio in the Franciscan antiphoner (left side) with the corresponding incipit text (right side)."
Chopin's First Editions Online
"The project's chief aim was to create an online resource uniting all of the first impressions of Chopin's first editions in an unprecedented virtual collection, thereby providing direct access to musicians and musicologists to some of the most important primary source materials relevant to the composer's music."
Documenting Teresa Carreño
"Documenting Teresa Carreño is an open-access project, which will bring together select primary source materials, such as advertisements, announcements, and reviews from newspapers, with descriptions or annotations in order to document Carreño's career from 1862 - 1917."
Doing Reusable Music Data
"Initiated in late 2014, DOREMUS is a research project based on the semantic web technologies, aiming to develop tools and methods to describe, publish, connect and contextualize music catalogues on the web of data. Its primary objective is to provide common knowledge models and shared multilingual controlled vocabularies."
English Broadside Ballad Project
"EBBA has made broadside ballads from many different holdings easily and fully accessible: gathered together on one site as ballad sheet facsimiles, facsimile transcriptions, text transcriptions, and recordings, and extensively catalogued. All ballads can be viewed via basic and advanced search functions."
Freischütz Digital
"Weber's Freischütz, as an exemplary pilot project following the draft of a concept derived from Frans Wiering's Multidimensional Model of authentically digital music editions, was to provide a proof of concept to demonstrate the potential of an innovative editorial technology and to deal with new issues associated with it."
The Josquin Research Project
"The Josquin Research Project (JRP) changes what it means to engage with Renaissance music. Our open-access website not only hosts an ever-growing collection of complete scores, but for the first time makes the music fully searchable."
Linked Jazz
"The project draws on jazz history materials in digital format to expose relationships between musicians and reveal their community network."
The Lost Voices Project
"Companion resource to Les livres de Chansons Nouvelles de Nicolas Du Chemin (1549–1568), hosted by the Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France."
Musical Festivals Database
"The Musical Festivals Database (MFD) is a fully-searchable index of programs, personnel, ensembles and venues of musical festivals held between 1695 and 1940."
Online Chopin Variorum Edition
"It provides digital images of the manuscripts and first editions of select works by the Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin. Its principal aim is to facilitate and enhance comparative analysis of these primary sources, attaining a degree of flexibility beyond that of extant printed editions of Chopin's music and indeed of any composer to date."
Opening the Geese Book
"A team of experts headed by Volker Schier and Corine Schleif opens the Geese Book to scholars and provides a window for broader audiences. Completed in 1510 for the parish of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg, this large-format gradual preserves the mass liturgy that was sung by choir boys until the Reformation was introduced in 1525."
Schenker Documents Online
"Schenker Documents Online offers a scholarly edition of this material based not on facsimiles but on near-diplomatic transcriptions of the original texts, together with English translations, explanatory footnotes, summaries, and contextual material relating the texts to Schenker's personal development and that of his correspondents."
The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music
"This digital collection features traditional tunes and songs collected by master fiddle player Séamus Connolly, Sullivan Artist in Residence in Irish Music at Boston College (2004 to 2015) and National Heritage Fellow (2013). Freely available, the collection offers over 330 audio recordings featuring more than 130 musicians via SoundCloud, with accompanying stories, transcriptions, and introductory essays."
Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis
"The Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis project (SIMSSA) is teaching computers to recognize the musical symbols in digital images of musical scores, linking materials from the shelves of libraries and museums from around the world in a single digital forum."
Songs of Victorians
"Welcome to Songs of the Victorians, an archive of parlor and art song settings of Victorian poems, and also a scholarly tool to facilitate interdisciplinary music and poetry scholarship."
Sonic Dictionary
"The Sonic Dictionary is a growing collection of more than 800 sound recordings created by university students. Our goal is to enhance the vocabulary of sonic experience."
Johannes Tinctoris Complete Theoretical Works
"This project, currently in its initial stages of development, presents a complete new edition of Tinctoris's treatises, along with full English translations and multiple layers of commentary material, covering a wide range of technical, historical and critical issues arising from both the texts themselves and the wider context of Tinctoris's life and the musical environment of early Renaissance Europe."
PhD Candidate in Musicology
Liz Crisenbery
Last Updated: Aug 21, 2019 11:04 AM
URL: https://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=857511
Tags: digital, digital humanities, digital musicology, music, musicology


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Supporting our own: David Wells
The one thing I have learned about the Dynamo fans is we are a community, through everything - both in the good and in the bad. When the need arises for us to support our own, we do not disappoint.
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Megan Flora
Many game day regulars may have noticed that the supporters section has been short a familiar face recently. David Wells, one of the leaders of Brickwall Firm, was recently involved in a serious accident while out of town. He has been sedated in the ICU but has been making improvement. He has finally been weaned off sedation and has a tentative timeline to return home next week. As well all know medical care is astronomical these days and so Dynamo supporters are coming together to raise funds for "Dave's Road Back to Houston".
When something happens to one of us we all come together. David is one of the sweetest guys I know, was one of the first guys to reach his hand out when I became involved in the Dynamo and once treated me to drinks at HOB (where he worked) when I dropped off Dynamo tickets to him. - Megan Flora
Donations to help Dave can be made through Joe Garza's paypal account mexskinoi at yahoo dot com.
Any amount big or small is a big help. It's not about who is in what supporter group or if you are in one or not, but about the chance to help out a member of the Dynamo community.


Part-time mental health care will soon expand to the Virginia Science and Technology Campus following a lobbying effort by nursing school faculty and students.
Part-time mental health care will soon expand to the Virginia Science and Technology Campus following a lobbying effort by nursing school faculty and staff.
The University will hire a counselor to work on VSTC two days each week as part of a series of changes to student health services announced earlier this month. Officials said the counselor will bring a much-needed service to a campus where students face the academic rigors of college life without Mental Health Services on site.
Danielle Lico, the associate dean of students for student administrative services, said Pamela Jeffries, the dean of the School of Nursing, approached the Colonial Health Center's staff last academic year to address a growing need for mental health services on VSTC. Lico said with the addition, students on VSTC will have access to the same short-term mental health counseling system as students on the Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon campuses.
Officials said last week they would double the number of free counseling hours available to all students from six to 12, one of several changes to student health to be enacted this fall, including a health insurance mandate and electronic record-keeping system.
Counseling will initially be the only new health service provided for the Virginia campus, but officials will "continue to evaluate" the health needs of the campus, Lico said. She declined to say where counseling services will be located on VSTC and the hours they will operate.
Jennifer Hayes-Klosteridis, the assistant dean for student affairs at the nursing school, said VSTC students are in class for about 30 hours each week, making it difficult for them to find time to travel to Foggy Bottom for mental health appointments if they need them.
The number of students enrolled on VSTC has soared from 311 in 2015 to 656 last fall – the largest enrollment on the campus since 2012, according to statistics from the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.
Reed Elman Waxham, the Student Association's co-director of student health services, said the introduction of Mental Health Services is "crucial" to the health of students on the VSTC campus who haven't previously had access to any health services.
Elman Waxham said the SA and the Student Health Advisory Council, which launched this fall to provide student advice to officials on health care policy, advocated the expansion of health services for all three of GW's campuses in meetings with administrators.
"We are excited by this first step in improving access to critical mental health care at the VSTC campus," he said.
Mental Health Services was first expanded to the Mount Vernon Campus in 2014 after three students committed suicide while living there. Currently, walk-in crisis support services are offered on the Vern.
MHS on Foggy Bottom has been hit by accusations of mismanagement in recent years, after the director stepped down from his position in 2015 after being found unlicensed to practice as a psychologist in the District and two other staff members were also found to not have licenses.
Kelly Greco, the assistant director of outreach and prevention services and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Southern California, said graduate students can particularly be under a lot of stress, especially if they are working to conduct research in more isolated environments like labs.
The Virginia Science and Technology Campus houses 17 centers, institutes and labs for students, faculty and staff to conduct scientific research.


Below are links to my published scholarship beyond my book. Additionally, you can explore my research at my Google Scholar or SSRN webpages.
Skaife, Hollis A., and Timothy Werner. Forthcoming (2019). "Changes in Firms' Political Investment Opportunities, Managerial Accountability, and Reputational Risk." Accepted for publication at Journal of Business Ethics.
Werner, Timothy. 2017. "Investor Reaction to Covert Corporate Political Activity." Strategic Management Journal 38 (12): 2424–2443. Winner of the Best Proposal with Practical Implications Award of the Stakeholder Strategy Interest Group at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society.
Richter, Brian Kelleher, and Timothy Werner. 2017. "Campaign Contributions from Corporate Executives in Lieu of Political Action Committees." Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 33 (3): 443–474.
McDonnell, Mary-Hunter, and Timothy Werner. 2016. "Blacklisted Businesses: Social Activists' Challenges and the Disruption of Corporate Political Activity." Administrative Science Quarterly 61 (4): 584–620. Winner of the Best Conference Paper Prize at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society.
Werner, Timothy. 2015. "Gaining Access by Doing Good: The Effect of Sociopolitical Reputation on Firm Participation in Public Policymaking." Management Science 61 (8): 1989–2011.
Werner, Timothy, and John J. Coleman. 2015. "Citizens United, Independent Expenditures, and Agency Costs: Reexamining the Political Economy of State Antitakeover Statutes." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 31 (1): 127–159.
Werner, Timothy. 2011. "The Sound, the Fury, and the Non-event: Business Power and Market Reactions to the Citizens United Decision." American Politics Research 39 (1): 118–41.
Werner, Timothy. 2009. "Congressmen of the Silent South: The Persistence of Southern Racial Liberals, 1949–1964." Journal of Politics 71 (1): 70–81.
Werner, Timothy, and Kenneth R. Mayer. 2007. "Public Election Funding, Competition, and Candidate Gender." PS: Political Science and Politics 40 (4): 661–67.


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A regular blogger and spokesperson in the media on topics related to financial services marketing and communications, Megan is also a sought-after speaker at a wide range of industry events, including Pershing INSITE, Bob Veres' Insider's Forum, the ECHELON Partners Deals and Deal Makers Summit, the Riskalyze Fearless Investing Summit, Disrupt|Advice, FPA NorCal, the MarketCounsel Summit, and the CFA Institute.
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Tim holds the Certified Financial Planner, CFP® designation and is an active member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), serving in a leadership role on a number of task forces, committees and as a past elected member of the National Board of Directors.


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Also it works on desktop browsers and older IE versions with jQuery plugin.
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CREWS' VIEWS Back in the early 1960s, when I was a Bellarmine student, the student body had a less-than-flattering way to describe the college library, which was then housed in a portion of today's Horrigan Hall. We called it "the Best High School Library in Louisville." And, believe it or not, that particular library, when it opened in 1954, was a great leap forward from the original one that had been tucked away in what is now Pasteur Hall. Since the opening of Bellarmine's W.L. Lyons Brown Library on April 7, 1997, we have certainly made up for lost time and can boast of a splendid facility and collection. I was thinking of that old library not long ago when one of our Bellarmine alums, Angela (Hobbs) Morris '81, asked me to give a talk on the topic of "My Life in Libraries." This was held at the Ernest Miller White Library of the Louisville Seminary, where Angela is head of public services. One of the stories indelibly etched in my memory from my own student days is of an incident that took place in the old Bellarmine Library in Horrigan Hall. Faced with people ripping off their collection, the library had recently installed its first checker and turnstile. One of the first to come through—and asked to open his briefcase—was a certain adjunct professor of philosophy. Caught off-guard by the new regulations, he decided that such a search was an insult to his dignity and demanded to speak to the librarian on duty. That individual, thoroughly competent and kind, could also be at times stern, even unbending. "I'm sorry," she said. "Everyone must submit their belongings to search, even President Horrigan!" "That doesn't matter," the faculty member persisted. "Neither he nor anyone else should be subjected to this intrusion." 46 BELLA RMINE MAGAZINE Fr. Clyde F. Crews | ccrews@bellarmine.edu The Ins and Outs of Libraries "Well," the woman at the desk finally decreed, "I'm sorry, sir, but this is an absolute law." Now the cards were on the table. But ever the philosopher, our somewhat officious academic played what he thought was his ideological trump. "Young woman," he shouted, "absolute laws are appropriate to God alone, and certainly not to assistant librarians!" It was a great put-down, but as far as we know, that briefcase was inspected thoroughly before the library door sprang open. My own major confrontation with library law came when I was far from home, in London. It was in the years between my graduation from Bellarmine and my returning here to teach in 1973. Most of that time I was at Fordham University in pursuit of a doctorate, and I spent a semester at the British Museum doing research for that degree. To get a card to use the British Library collection (then a part of the British Museum in Bloomsbury), I presented my credentials and letters of introduction and was given forms to complete. I took them back to the desk. "You haven't done it right, have you?" said the clerk, with what I took at the time to be British disdain. "You've done it in ballpoint!" On this final word he not only raised his voice, but also put the emphasis on the second syllable. He grudgingly explained that I was required to use genuine flowing ink, and so I had to leave the building and find a stationer's shop and make the appropriate purchases. Now came my second try. I was back before the same stalwart clerk. I'm not applying for Social Security, I thought. I only want a library card. But the stern-faced official shook his head. "You still haven't done it right, have you?" This time he nearly whispered it. "You've used your middle initial, haven't you? Clearly, your full middle name is required." Fortunately, I could supply this—in dark fluid ink—on the spot. The third time was charmed and the great empire of manuscripts was at last opened to me. No Xeroxing was permitted, though, and for two months I sat there making notes (in pencil only!) from the diaries I was researching. Any time I am tempted to take our ready access to resources in libraries today too much for granted, I think back on these vignettes of Bellarmine folk: One a young graduate student having trouble getting into a library, and the other an old professor having trouble getting out. And I appreciate the Bellarmine Library more than ever. Like all really good libraries, it is a place where the user can find an immense and incredible diversity, where new worlds are forever opening. And as for getting in and out? No problem.


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Home > Kentucky > Gallatin County
Gallatin County High School
70 Wildcat Circle
Warsaw, KY 41095
www.gallatin.k12.ky.us
Gallatin County High School serves 486 students in grades 9-12.
The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Math is 40-44% (which is lower than the Kentucky state average of 47%) for the 2016-17 school year. The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Reading/Language Arts is 35-39% (which is lower than the Kentucky state average of 56%) for the 2016-17 school year.
The student:teacher ratio of 15:1 is lower than the Kentucky state level of 16:1.
Minority enrollment is 15% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is lower than the Kentucky state average of 23%.
Gallatin County High School's student population of 486 students has stayed relatively flat over five school years.
Gallatin County High School's student:teacher ratio of 15:1 has decreased from 16:1 over five school years.
The diversity score of Gallatin County High School is 0.27, which is less than the diversity score at state average of 0.39. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five school years.
Math Test Scores (% Proficient) 40-44%
Reading / Language Arts Test Scores (% Proficient) 35-39%
Graduation Rate ≥95%
School District Name Gallatin County School District
The nearest high school to Gallatin County High School is Switzerland Co Senior High School (10.4 miles away)
The nearest middle school is Gallatin County Middle School (0.1 miles away)
The nearest elementary school is Gallatin County Middle School (0.1 miles away)
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If Nigel Adkins has brought one thing to this team then it's a horrible inconsistency. The turn of the year normally sparks Reading into life, but the same run that took us to the Championship title two seasons ago has failed to materialise. Brian McDermott's side showed a grit and determination to win games that seems to be lacking recently.
McDermott was, of course, the latest victim of a team that can put anybody to the sword - but 5-1, and 7-1 wins weren't backed up and now The Royals are in very imminent danger of falling to 8th. Our last 6 read:
L 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday Pearce sent off (rescinded)
W 3-1 QPR Gorkss sent off (rescinded)
L 0-1 Blackburn
D 1-1 Yeovil Yeovil finish with 8 men
D 1-1 Brighton Brighton finish with 10 men
W 4-2 Leeds
Obviously the thing that jumps out straight away is that we saw 6 red cards in 5 games, but the worrying thing is that even Sheffield Wednesday managed to capitalise where Reading didn't - whether or not the red card was deserved. (QPR were already dead when Gorkss was sent off, so we managed to see that out) Not being able to beat a side who are bottom of the league, and had the misfortune to see three players dismissed is embarrassing. Plain and simple. For a side that - whatever the result - were playing in the top tier of English football last year it's simply not good enough; especially at the most crucial point of the season.. WhoScored has us registering 30 shots, and it's telling that 11 of those were blocked, but we had the same number off-target which has to be improved upon. Couple that with missing a penalty, and our goal being a fortuitous OG and things really were looking bleak.
Jobi McAnuff had a chance to seal the points at Brighton but failed to capitalise, and it's a similar story. Reading had 26 shots (8 blocked) but 13 off target but only found the net once. Our loss to Blackburn saw 18 shots, but Robinson only had to make one save. Then you look at our wins. Reading managed to score three times off six shots against QPR, and four times from 14 shots at an, admittedly demoralised, Leeds.
The only thing that I can see is that Reading lose all confidence when conceding the first goal. Wednesday, Blackburn, Yeovil, and Brighton all scored first. Looking back further than that, in our last 11 failures to win the opposition have scored first in all of them. Conversely Reading have scored first in all of their last 14 wins. The only time we've come from behind to win is the opening day of the season, when Jay Tabb's strike cruelly opened our campaign.
Adkins team seems to let their heads drop straight away, and never give themselves a chance of getting back into the game. Why? I have no idea, but maybe it's time to call in a sports' psychologist because the trademark of a Reading performance, for the last few seasons anyway, has been battling away until the last minute - and the fact that we had more comeback wins last season than our current one says a lot.
Either that or we need to be a lot more solid defensively, those run of 1-0 victories in the Championship winning season were absolutely crucial. In my mind Alex McCarthy is at fault for both of the goals conceded against Yeovil and Brighton, being far too eager to come off his line and getting caught out of position because of it - either by the opposition or his own team-mates. Hopefully it's just a temporary blip by McCarthy who has looked so solid all year.
Reading still have to play the top two, as well as Derby, Wigan, and Middelsbrough, which makes the run of games after Derby all must-win. Birmingham (A), Barnsley (H), Huddersfield (H), Charlton (A), Bournemouth (A) are all winnable, but slip up in any of them and the play-offs are a pretty unrealistic goal. Brighton and Wigan both have games in hand to lift them above us, and it just shows how crucial beating the teams around you is. A win against Brighton (or Yeovil) and we would be sitting in fifth, out of the reach of The Seagulls.
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Rare Jumbo Sized version Run Pised (Special Edition) series Pra Somdej Pim Khee Moo Hlang Roop Hmuean Buddha Riding Wild Boar Votive Tablet with Image of LP Seng on rear face. Released in various design models (Pim) and sizes, after Buddha Abhiseka Empowerment Ceremony in the year 2525 BE, the amulet is made from Nuea Pong Puttakun with Pong Ittijae and Pong Wan, and Blessed by the Great Luang Por Seng, at Wat Bang Na. The amulet features a Buddha Image seated upon a 3 tiered dais, above a wild boar, with upward pointing tusks. The rear face has the image of the cameo of Luang Por Seng, with the words 'Luang Phu Seng Jantrarasi, Wat Bang Na Amphoe Sam Koke, J. Patum Thani' (J for Jangwat, meaning Province), and the words 'Run Pised' (Special Edition).
Free Registered Air Parcel Worldwide Shipping is Included with this Amulet. Luang Phu Seng Jantarangsri, or lovingly known as 'Taep Jao Chaw Raman' (The Raman Mong Tribe Angel and Lord), of Wat Bang Na, in Amper Sam Koke in Patum Thani, was one of the Great Thai Buddhist Master Monks of the the late 24th and early 25th Century BE.
The temple of Wat Bang Na was always a large and popular temple in Patum Thani, for there were many people whose children ordained there, and the families would visit to pay reverence and offerings almost every day. Many monks would school there, and the temple was popular for local folk from near and far to come and make merits there. But it was only when the Great Luang Por Seng arrived, that amulets were made at Wat Bang Na.
Before Luang Por Seng, no monk had previously made an edition of amulets. This means then, that Luang Por Seng was the Master responsible for the act of 'Berk Dtamra'; the Opening and Beginning of a Temple Master Lineage in amulet creation and empowerment. So began the Dtamra Pra Krueang (Amulet Legend/History) of Wat Bang Na.
Luang Phu Seng was also the first ever Monk of Wat Bang Na to receive Honorary status awarded from the Royal State Sangha Comission, Luang Por Seng was born in 2444 BE in the nearby vicinity of the temple of Wat Bang Na, and grew up near the temple. He never really told anybody more details than his year of birth, so this is about all that is recorded of his birth. It is also known that he was the only surviving child of a total of 7 siblings, who all died early age.
In those days, most people of the area of Wat Bang Na were farmers, many of the Raman Mong people who had come down the Mekhong from the Border Mountains. Many would farm the fields or make bricks, or would farm sugar beets. As to Luang Por Seng's father, who was also a Raman (Mong Hilltribe) named Ju, who had come down the Mekhong in a boat, he was the owner of a small groceries and sundries shop. His Mother was also a Raman who went by the name of Khem.
Luang Por Seng was ordained in the year 2465 BE with Por Kroo Nantamunii of Wat Bang Luang s Upachaya Ordaining Officer. Luang Phu Tian, of Wat Bote, was his Pra Gamma Waajaajaarn, and Luang Phu Tat Sahulo, who was also Luang Por Seng's Uncle, and the Abbot of Wat Bang Na, as his Pra Anusawanaajaarn witness.
Luang Por Seng mastered both the Raman language, and the Khom Pali Sanskrit Agkhara texts, and Wicha Akom (Sorcery). Luang Por would absorb as many Wicha from as many Masters as possible, and became extremely well versed in Sorcery and Khom Pali over the years, until, in the year 2486 BE, the Abbot of Wat Bang Na passed away (Marana Bhava), and Luang Por Seng was elected to become the new Abbot. He was Inaugurated as Abbot in 2487 BE by the Temple Comittee. Luang Phu Seng then conducted his duties extremely well and gave very many great Dhamma Sermons and performed great works.
Then in the year 2489, the State Sangha Comission of Thailand elected him unofficially to the status of Abbot with all full regalia and honors. Luang Por Seng was then empowered to perform the great work of finishing the Uposadha Shrine Room building begun by his predecessor Luang Phu Tat, and developed the temple in many ways. Each year, Luang Phu Seng would adhere to the practice of spending some time performing Boriwasagam (Tudong Forest Wandering). In these times and when he was not busy with the worldly facets of temple administration, he would practice kata Akom and Sorcery Spells using his Prakam rosary to count out formulas and memorise them. He became extremely proficient over the decades with repertoire of Magical incantations.
Pra Pong Somdej Sam Chan Run Raek 2510 BE - Made from Pong Ittijae powders, and is empowered with Metta Mahaniyom and Kaa Khaay Power. The first edition Pra Somdej features a Buddha on a 3 tiered dais, with the words 'Pra Kroo Seng'. here were 2 versions; some models had 'Pra Kroo Seng Jantarangsri' embossed too. The words are embossed below the dais of the Buddha. Some of the amulets had the words embossed by the block press of the amulets, some were inscribed by the hand of Luang Por Seng by hand (Rare!). Luang Phu made these amulets in five different colored powders; Black, Red, Green, Yellow, and White. It is said that many of the Pra Somdej he made have a secret Takrut Nok Sariga inside them, inserted within the amulet.
Once he had pressed the amulets and all were ready, he would then perform empowerments, and hand the amulets out distributing them to the local devotees.Many devotees wore his amulets and survived deadly accidents, and so his amulets became the talk of the folk, and they began to appear ever more rarely, as Devotees began to hunt and collect them for their own use and protection After the popularity of his first edition Pra Somdej due to the miraculous stories of survival, Luang Phu had to quickly make the second ever release of amulets, this time his first edition coin, the Rian Sema Kwam. The coin was made in three different sacred metals; Galai Tong, Galai Ngern, and Nuea Tong Daeng. The coin has a bust image of Luang Phu Seng, and the words 'Ajarn Seng' underneath the image on the lower part of the front face of the coin. The rear face has a Sacred Yant emblazoned on it, below which are the words 'Wat Bang Na', and the year of issue '2510'.
Up to 2512 BE, Luang Phu Seng performed empowerments of the amulets in solo in the Uposadha Shrine, except for the first edition coins he made, where he invited a number of monks from surrounding temples, to come and perform full Buddha Abhiseka blessing. After 2512 BE, Luang Phu always performed full Buddha Abhiseka ceremonies on all editions with a full cast of Monks to perform the chanting of the Opening of the Eyes of the Buddha.
One of Luang Phu Sengs most famous and preferred amulets, is the Pra Somdej Khee Moo (Tong Daeng) - Buddha riding a Boar of 2525 BE. The Khee Moo Pra Somdej amulet was actually comissioned by the Devotees of Luang Phu Seng and given to him for empowerment, and is one of the most sought after of all his amulets by his extreme devotees. The Pra Somdej Khee Moo is also a preferred amulet of this Pantheon with serious speculative amulet collectors and appreciation societies.
Another famous and highly sought after amulet of Luang Por Seng is the Moo Tong Daeng Khiaw Dtan 'Copper Pig with Solid Tusks' Animist Charm Loi Ongk Statuette, made in 2521 BE, and released in 2522 BE. The legend of the Moo Tong Daeng Copper Pig with solid Tusks (not hollow - considered a Magical aspect of Kong Grapan Chadtri Magic), states that bullets shot from a gun cannot pierce the skin of a Moo Tong Daeng Khiaw Dtan. Luang Phu Seng then used this Dtamra Legend to inflect Kong Grapan Chadtri and Klaew Klaad into the amulets, and instill faith and peace of mind in their users.
As the Buddha Abhiseka for the Moo Tong Daeng Khiaw Dtan amulets was being performed, the Uposadha Shrine room was sealed off to the public as the monks performed their blessings and meditative empowerments. However, some devotees witnessed a sight; a Mirage of a load of boars and pigs, were seen running into the Uposadha during the ceremony. After the ceremony was over, one of the devotees entered the shrine room, and informed Luang Phu Seng of what had been witnessed. Luang Por Seng laughed, gave a smile but said nothing else.
After the release of the Moo Tong Daeng Khiaw Dtan amulets, they attained great popularity due to effective results with the Devotees. The amulets were made in Nuea Loha (sacred iron alloy), and was made in small and large sizes. The left side of the body of the Boar has the words 'Wat Bang Na Patum Thani 2521' embossed, and the right side of the body of the boar has Khom Agkhara lettering embossed. The legs of the Boar have the four elements inscribed in Khom Sanskrit 'Na Ma Pa Ta'.
The first edition of Moo Tong Daeng was made in a number of 2500 amulets only, making them very rare to find in the present day. They are known for powerful Klaew Klaad and Kaa Khaay Power. Lastly, one cannot speak of Luang Phu Seng without mentioning his famous Paya Krut Tong Daeng Garuda amulet. Perhaps the other most commonly seen amulet of Luang Phu Seng seen in High End Collector Club Magazines, is almost certainly the Paya Krut Garuda amulet.
The Paya Krut Garuda amulet of Luang Phu Seng, was blessed in Buddha Abhiseka with a further 10 Master Monks who Luang Phu Seng invited to assist in the empowerment. The Garudas were made in Nuea Tong Daeng sacred Copper Alchemical Alloy.
The amulets were first released in 2522 BE. The rear face of Luang Phu Aeng's Paya Krut amulet has the words 'Luang Phu Seng Wat Bang Na Patum Thani 2522' engraved into the metal face, with Agkhara Khom Khmer Inscriptions interspersed. The amulet is now one of the most expensive and highly prized of all is pantheon of amulets.
The Paya Krut Tong Daeng had various miraculous news stories which made it popular as a Klaew Klaad and Kong Grapan Chadtri protective amulet, which has saved lives both on roads and on the ocean. The amulet is often seen in High End Collcetor Championships competing, and often winning not only in the Luang Phu Seng category, but also the Paya Krut category, and Loi Ongk category.
Apart from the above mentioned amulets, Luang Phu made a host of other forms of amulet including the Hanuman (In Galai Ngern and Galai Tong Daeng), then the Dtao Ruean turtle,, after which he created one set of silver and golden Hongsa Bird amulets, to remind people that Wat Bang Na, was built upon the sweat of the Raman People.
The Mong Raman (Rmen) people, are a hilltribe whose territory stretches from the Kanjanaburi district up to the borders of the Karen (Gariang Kor Ma) Horseneck tribe territory. Teir main population is within the borders of Myanmar, with a total population of 8 million, 114,000 of which are inside the borders of Thailand. Their Ethnic Origins come from Southern India.
Luang Por Seng's corpse remains on show at the temple of Wat Bang Na in a glass coffin, and does not deteriorate further.
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Touki Toussaint earned the win by tossing six solid innings of one-run relief in his season debut Saturday night as the host Atlanta Braves scored four runs apiece in the first and second innings of an 11-7 victory over the New York Mets.The Braves, who lost the first two games of the four-game series, have won four of six. The Mets had a three-game winning streak snapped despite scoring at least six runs for a team-record seventh straight game.Both starters were chased early Saturday. Mets left-hander Jason Vargas recorded just one out in the first inning and Braves southpaw Sean Newcomb exited after 1 1/3 innings.But while the Mets' Corey Oswalt struggled in relief of Vargas, Toussaint spared the Braves' bullpen by allowing four hits and two walks while striking out seven just hours after he was recalled from Triple-A Oswalt allowed five runs on six hits and four walks in 3 2/3 innings.The outing by Toussaint was the longest by a Braves reliever since Cristhian Martinez went six in a 19-inning win over Pittsburgh on July 26, 2011.Toussaint was pulled with one out in the eighth after walking Travis d'Arnaud and giving up a single to Keon Broxton. Chad Sobotka induced Amed Rosario to hit into a potential double play, but first baseman Freddie Freeman threw the ball away, and d'Arnaud raced home with an unearned run.Ronald Acuna Jr. (single), Dansby Swanson (bases-loaded walk) and Johan Camargo (two-run single) each had RBIs in the first inning before the Mets answered in the top of the second, when Juan Lagares laced a two-RBI double, Oswalt lofted a sacrifice fly and Jeff McNeil delivered a game-tying single.


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